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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Fitzsimmons, James

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1965-1966

Volume: 20 item(s); 29 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Fitzsimmons, James".

Biography

James Fitzsimmons was editor of The Lugano Review and writes from Switzerland.

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Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1964/no/no? TNSto MertonWould be honoured if you would send us some poems, perhaps some photographs of drawings too,  [verso: subscription card and description of the <u>The Lugano Review</u>, a sister publication of <u>Art International</u>]
 1965/01/01 TL[c]from MertonThanks for letting me know about your new LUGANO REVIEW. I will keep you in mind when I have   
 1965/01/09 TLSto MertonI was delighted to receive your letter and the things you sent, and shall look forward to working   
 1965/01/14 TL[c]from MertonThanks for your letter of the 9th. I am quite interested in a few books to review, just as long as   
 1965/01/29 TLSto MertonThings have been a bit hectic of late and I'm not sure whether I answered your letter of the 14th   
 1965/02/03 TL[c]from MertonYour letter just came in, and I have finally got some decent prints of the drawings which I am   
 1965/04/05 TALSto MertonAm wondering why I haven't heard from you lately and hope you are well. Perhaps you have been   
 1965/04/08 TL[c]from MertonActually I was going to write to you today anyway if your letter had not come in. Now with many   
 1965/04/29 TL[c]from MertonHere is the text of the Chuang Tzu imitations I have been doing. This is not yet the whole book,   
 1965/05/02 TLSto MertonThanks for your long and informative letter of April 8th. Would have replied before but have been   
 1965/05/06 TLSto MertonA hasty note (because I am buried in work) to let you know that the Chuang-Tzu "imitations" arrived   
 1965/05/31 TL[c]from MertonThanks for your letter of May 6th and the one that preceded it by a couple of days. I have done no   
 1965/12/17 TAL[c]from MertonYou did not answer me about that Zen review article, but I have written it anyway and I think it is   
 1966/01/04 HLSto MertonMany thanks for the Zen article. Of course I will use it, and right away. I regret only that you   
 1966/02/18 TAL[c]from MertonYour letter of the 4th reached me after I had mailed back the proofs, and I think you are right that   
 1966/02/25 TANSto MertonThank you for your kind letter. Mine was written in the slough of despond that one finds oneself in   
 1966/08/17 TL[c]from MertonThe new <u>Lugano</u> came yesterday and I am very happy with it. An excellent issue. I am most   
 1966/08/22 TLSto MertonThe double number I had sent off to you a couple of weeks ago or so may well be the last of TLR.   
 1966/08/25 TLSto MertonYour very gratifying letter of the 17th to hand. Am permitting myself to quote your praise   
 1966/09/17 TL[c]from MertonI am really very sorry indeed to hear that the LUGANO REVIEW sank and is no more. If it can surface   
        

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